small-scale efforts to publish individual databases like WALS (World Atlas of Language Structures) or WOLD (World Loanword Database), thereby preserving the brands established by these projects,

while at the same time facilitating uniform access to the data across publications.

Within the project, this approach was applied to publishing lexical and grammatical databases already compiled at the MPI-EVA and elsewhere. This has led to a software framework which could then be used to develop database journals, i.e. edited collections of databases submitted by linguists from around the world.

The following databases either have current CLLD implementations or will at some point be available in the CLLD framework: